Packernet After Dark: A Toast to Bob Harlan and the Soul of This Franchise
Packernet Podcast: Daily Green Bay Packers Podcast
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4.7 • 524 Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
It's another late night in the Packernet studio and the Pac Nation phone lines are jumping. Ryan breaks down the Miami Dolphins' full-scale teardown — trading away Jalen Waddle for draft capital while sitting on over $100 million in dead cap money — and why the new regime has zero emotional attachment to the guys they're moving on from.
The big conversation of the night, though, is the one that's been rattling around since Ed Policy opened his mouth: can the Green Bay Packers stay financially competitive in a league that's rapidly evolving around them? Ryan lays out a compelling argument that the Packers' best friend isn't a naming rights deal — it's the NFL's own explosive revenue growth. The bigger the shared revenue pie, the more Green Bay stays on even footing with stadium districts and concert venues they simply can't build.
- Dolphins teardown breakdown: why trading Waddle for a first makes sense when you're in full rebuild mode
- Ryan's shared revenue theory: how the NFL's global expansion might actually be the Packers' financial lifeline
- A genuinely moving moment: a caller reads a letter from Bob Harlan to stockholders from the late '90s and pays tribute to his late father
- Bruce from El Paso demands more rants — Ryan promises Sal will never steal his thunder
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| 0:00.0 | You feel this nervousness on the phone there? |
| 0:04.1 | Sir, I've been trying to make an urgent phone call up there. |
| 0:08.0 | I don't think it's something I want to do on an overseas phone. |
| 0:10.8 | You got to make some phone calls. |
| 0:12.8 | Hanging up the phone. |
| 0:13.7 | Prank caller! |
| 0:14.2 | Prank call her! |
| 0:15.7 | Ladies and gentlemen, welcome once again to Packernet After Dark. |
| 0:20.4 | This is the call-in show at the Packernet Podcast Network. |
| 0:24.6 | If you'd like to call in, if you'd like to participate in the show, please feel free to do so. |
| 0:30.4 | The phone number here is 608501-0718. |
| 0:35.5 | New callers go directly to the front of the line. |
| 0:38.5 | We don't have any new callers, but we have Jared, the Uber driver. |
| 0:42.2 | Yeah, I didn't say the Uber driver. |
| 0:43.6 | Jared, the Uber driver in Texas? |
| 0:45.2 | No, I'm just the only one helping. |
| 0:47.7 | The Uber driver. |
| 0:48.8 | So what is up with the Dolphins and always trading away big players. I know they're getting a first |
| 0:55.6 | rounder and I think third and fourth rounder. Go eat your snack, honey. Go eat your stack. Oh, |
| 1:02.3 | I've got to love when they're crotch. I go. Go, go. Go, go. Go, go. But yeah, what is up with the dolphins doing that? like i i don't get i've never seen a franchise |
| 1:14.1 | trade away so many of their what could be cornerstone players for picks i mean i get it you know |
| 1:20.1 | more picks more players less money spent but like if you have a what you think is a player worth |
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